Art Is Everywhere: Free Art Experiences In 10 Major American Cities
Free art experiences can be hard to come by and art is a subject always wrestling with access issues. The history of art means that over the years, it has become more and more accessible. From the days when kings and queens were the benefactors-in-chief, to today where you...
Read MoreIPaintMyMind x Blick Art Lincoln Park: Working Together To Support Northwest Middle School & Nixon Elementary
Starting last year, the Blick Lincoln Park store has been generously supporting our mission to transform people & spaces through the power of art. As an organization that frames a lot of art, it’s always great to have partners who not only can help us source those frames, but...
May 04, 2020IPMM x Lisa Congdon – Artist Q&A for Portage Park Elementary
Covid-19 has really thrown a wrench in education, and we’ve been keeping in touch with our partners schools and teachers to help with any pressing needs and support e-learning efforts. We’d been cooking up Artist Q&A videos before that, initially to help connect artists from all over the world...
May 01, 2020Where Can I Rent Art For My Business?
As an executive, an executive’s assistant, an office manager, a facilities director, or any other position that thinks about the aesthetics and feel of an office space, you know there are plenty of vendors who can help with everything from snacks to art. While most businesses are seriously examining their...
Apr 27, 2020IPaintMyMind Timed Release Series: Sam Kirk & Grae Rosa – On-Sale Friday, May 1st @ 6pm
Exclusively Available via IPaintMyMind, Sam Kirk & Grae Rosa prints are on-Sale Until May 15th @ 6pm CST! Buy yours before they’re gone. In an effort to further connect everyone we work with, we’ve revived the concept of a print series, which saw a few editions way back in...
Apr 20, 2020Interview: Shawn Smith of Shawnimals
If you’ve ever met Shawn Smith, you know the guy is a ball of joy. His beard arrives before he does and his smile is clearly an authentic, natural expression of a dude who has built a creative life he can be proud of. Shawnimals is his brain-child, infecting...
Apr 20, 2020How Small Nonprofits Must Adjust To Ensure Survival In The Age of The Coronavirus
In this new, weird time, IPaintMyMind like most smaller nonprofits is thinking critically about how to best navigate a year that has quickly gone pear-shaped. While all of us have had to adapt on every level as individuals and families, businesses and nonprofits are also feeling the squeeze of...
Apr 13, 202010 Tips for Artists Who Want & Need To Get Organized
At IPaintMyMind, we’ve worked with hundreds of artists over the years from coast to coast, and it’s always interesting to see how folks work. Most of us want to get more organized in some aspect of our lives, but as artists and creators, it’s especially important that we work...
Apr 13, 2020The Top 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Struggle to Collaborate
Nonprofits and community groups provide vital support in a range of important civic areas but as leaders of our respective organizations, we could be doing more to help one another. One major area in the nonprofit sector that is ripe for evolution is the issue of collaboration between fellow...
Apr 06, 20205 Evolutionary Black Chicago Artists
Contemporary art challenges traditional notions of art, but it also relies on what comes before it. In this way, there is always a conversation between the new and the old, and the groundwork artistic predecessors laid out has a great deal to do with today’s artistic creations. It is...
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8 Pieces of Art That Literally Changed The World (To Share With Your Students)
All works of art create change and push already existing ideas in new directions and into new dimensions. However, there’s some art works that burst into existence at just the right moment, fueled by a changing world, a visionary mind, or a powerful new collective movement. These...
Oct 18, 2021FREE Art Activity + 18 Art Lesson Plans From the IPaintMyMind Arts Education Curriculum and Resource Guide
It’s a strange time for sure, and with the wide range of approaches to reopening schools that is happening nationwide, it’s clear that teachers, parents, families, and all the adults that support children will be looking for new ways to bridge this social gap. IPaintMyMind has been...
Aug 29, 202016 Free Lesson-Planning Resources for Art Teachers
The struggle of being an art teacher includes a unique blend of external doubt and internal friction. Art teachers share the same classroom and behavioral challenges that other elementary and secondary educators face while combating a similar stigma that troubles humanities departments across higher education–a skepticism about its value...
Feb 17, 2020